The World - March 25, 2010

THURSDAY

Detroit school officials announce the city will close 44 of its 172 public schools at the end of the school year in efforts to offset a $219 million budget deficit. Twenty-nine schools were shuttered before the current school year.

Haitian parents were reunited with 33 children taken into the Dominican Republic by U.S. Baptist missionaries after the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake.

A 21-year-old German man turned himself into police after admitting his role in a March 6 raid on a poker tournament in Berlin. Four men, armed with revolvers and machetes, stole $332,000 of prize money in t...